The Type of Town I Could Spend a Few Days In

Blogging is never light around here, but it may get a bit sporadic for the next 36 hours or so because I'm going to Miami to speak at this event and do a little reporting, and I'm not totally sure what my level of internet connectivity will be:

South Florida, of course, is full of Cubans and full of Jews, and I'm both. I'm not, however, a "Jewban" -- a person of Cuban Jewish ancestry. Rather, my mom's family and my paternal grandmother's family are standard Ashkenazi Jews and my dad's dad was Cuba. Either way, I think I'd be a good candidate for office in Florida.

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